‘Bob has proposed. She is over the moon,’ she said. ‘Jeanne Marine has been a rock and a tower of strength over this. I’m so excited for her I am bursting to tell someone.’

Hall added: ‘Bob and Jeanne have been through hell, but they are determined something positive will come out of it.

‘After all the sadness, we need something to focus on which will bring joy and light.’

Jerry, 57, went on to add that Bob popped the question as a surprise to Jeanne.

Bob and Jeanne started dating in 1996 after meeting at a dinner party in Paris. Bob had flown to Paris in the wake of his divorce from Paula Yates, who died four years later after a heroin overdose in her Notting Hill home in 2000.